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Innovation in impact bonds
The growth and innovation in the impact bond market has unlocked new opportunities for investors to provide capital for projects that have a positive social and/or environmental impact while generating competitive returns.
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Is China falling into deflation?
China’s headline consumer price index fell by 0.3% year-on-year in July to register deflation for the first time in two years. This figure raised concerns that falling prices would lead consumers to delay spending in an already weakening economy. However, in our view, the data is not a harbinger for prolonged deflation.
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Decarbonising the energy infrastructure ecosystem
Since launching Nuveen’s North American energy infrastructure credit platform in November 2022, Don Dimitrievich spoke with PDI about the compelling opportunity for infrastructure debt lending in North America, and why he believes managers who understand the entire energy infrastructure ecosystem, and have experience investing through credit cycles, will be best positioned to deliver the most attractive risk-adjusted returns for investors.
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Hydrogen 101: the uses, the costs and the opportunity
What does the opportunity around hydrogen look like? Our experts at Schroders Greencoat explain in this Q&A.
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Not all yield-curve steepenings are alike
End-of-cycle periods come and go, and they all tend to resemble each other. Inflation that exceeds central-bank targets legitimises increases in short rates, leading to long rates rising in anticipation. This opens the door to the prospect of different kinds of ‘steepenings’. In this weekly instalment of Simply put, we investigate the current outlook for the yield curve.
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UK Stewardship Code: LOIM confirmed as signatory for 3rd year
For the third consecutive year, LOIM has qualified as a signatory to the UK Stewardship Code, which sets high standards for reporting on the outcomes and integrity of the engagement, proxy voting and policy advocacy exercised by asset owners and investment managers.
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Lights, battery storage, action: Investing in the greenfield energy infrastructure needed for a net zero world
The energy transition requires both smarter production of clean energy as well as new, practical infrastructure to enable its use, explains Umberto Tamburrino, CEO of Sosteneo Infrastructure Partners, a company within the Generali Investments ecosystem of asset management firms, which specialises in greenfield investing.
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Unlock income opportunities across key credit sectors
As rate cycles around the world move toward their peak, we could now be at an inflection point for fixed income.
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AI in financial services
There is a great deal of Artificial intelligence (AI) behind the scenes within financial services, but it is not disruptive to the industry. Rather, AI is sustaining innovation and improving efficiency.
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Income Generator: Back in Bonds
Bonds are once again becoming a cornerstone allocation within portfolios. We explain five actions bond investors could consider to capitalize on current trends we’ve identified.
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Helping complete the research ‘puzzle’ with ESG integration
ESG adoption is now widespread among investment managers. Ninety percent of the 1,130 global investors surveyed in our latest ESG Global Study* have integrated ESG into their investment approach. Rising client demand, the desire to make an impact, new regulations and greater recognition of the potential financial consequences of ESG considerations have been cited by previous survey respondents as the main drivers for continued adoption.
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NYC Congestion Tolling: Winners, Losers and Unintended Consequences
Investors in municipal bonds are following the NYC congestion tolling situation as the MTA is a frequent borrower in the municipal bond market, but they are not the only borrower impacted by the program.
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The Limited Impact of the U.S. Downgrade on Munis
The credit quality of states as a group is not constrained by the U.S. sovereign rating and we don’t expect the U.S. downgrade to have an outsized impact on muni bond valuations going forward.
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A new dawn for voluntary carbon markets?
The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM) recently introduced its long-awaited Assessment Framework aimed at enhancing transparency and credibility in the voluntary carbon market. These guidelines have the potential to boost confidence and participation, while driving price differentiation for high-quality credits in a market projected to grow to about USD 250 bn within the next decade.
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Diversifying + Defensive Equity Approaches
In times when downside risk may lie ahead, a combination of diversifying and defensive equity approaches can potentially improve the probability of achieving positive outcomes.
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Assessing bond value in the new era
Brandywine Global: Fiscal stimulus has propped up real yields, but the effects may fade just as the lagged effects of monetary policy kick in. The result? Slower nominal growth and a better backdrop for bonds.
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Next-generation private equity: The art of partnership
Next-generation managers are re-energising the private equity industry from the point of view of both approach and performance.
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What’s happened to the cycle?
Conventional market wisdom dictates that a slowdown normally becomes a recession, and that investors should sell equities ahead of a downturn. Additionally, higher rates should eventually lead to lower inflation, at which point investors typically favour bonds. These phenomena tend to overlap more as the threat of a recession grows.
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Sustainability watch: nuclear fusion, carbon markets, and biomass bottles
Our selection of sustainability news from August includes news of Brazil’s green transition plan, record high sea surface temperatures, and how to turn CO2 into yarn.
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Beijing faces limited options to tackle economic woes
Many investors hoped that China’s re-opening following the end of zero-Covid would fuel a global rebound. But the country’s economy was in poor health before the pandemic.